hobonichi 2025 haul 💫 hobonichi cousin, notebooks + more

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Creators mentioned:
- ‪@alexthomascreative‬
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Notebooks & Pens I Use (not sponsored, just love 'em):
- Hobonichi Cousin
- Sailor Pro Gear Slim Sapporo White Gold Trim Fountain Pen
- Sailor Lecoule Fountain Pen
- Parker Fountain Pen (exact type unknown)
- Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen (Hard Tip)
- Tombow ABT Dual Brush Pens

[@torionpaper]

Get in the car planners, Elle posted!! 💕🤠

[@PaperJoyPH]

100% agree with your views on the pamphlet! Thank you for sharing your haul

[@alexthomascreative]

There were so many nice notebook options rhis year! Even the plain blue and grey qre pretty imo. Thanks for the shout-out :D

[@ivo3002]

This is first haul I have seen with Tragen flat pouch. I bought in a6 size for my Hon. Great video, thank you🤗

[@autisticbucky]

ooo i also love the mountains. none near me, but i drove through some when visiting my fiancé/e in California. this was such a nice lineup Elle! thank you for sharing! 💛

[@theoryof.lauren]

so happy to see you're gonna be back in a cousin! cantt wait for 2025 😍

[@northernvault2247]

I used my cousin this year as a daily journal. I’ve written in it every day. I love. I do write a lot. I am doing the same next year. And I purchased an A5 Avec as my daily planner. ❤❤ Your Tragen Flat Pouch.

[@nyek1246]

My daily journal is the Hobonichi A5 graph too (currently using the Keiko Shibata), and got the Denali as an extra. 💛💛💛

[@agathoklesmartinios8414]

I also got the A5 Cousin as a planner for 2025, looking to replace my current bujo. I didn't order it from Hobonichi themselves, but from a third-party store. As cover for the planner I got the Hollyhocks, because I like me some floral designs. I also decided to try out a pencil board and got one with the botanical illustration by Tomitaro Makino, which I have been using with an A5-sized notebook from Hobonichi which I also purchased as a general notebook, as opposed to use as a planner, organizer, or journal. That notebook being the Yamazakura, also botanical design by Tomitaro Makino. Getting that notebook was mainly to try out the Hobonichi paper and get used to it by the time I start to use the planner. The thinness of the paper is something I am not used to, used as I am to Leuchtturm notebooks. It is not, however, altogether unpleasant. At first, I was unsure what to actually use it for, but I recently started an online course on the basics of business administration, so I have been taking my notes in there. Set up an index at the start to easily locate where the different topics are, once there's more than one of them. I was surprised to find the notebook lacks page numbers, so I do have to add these as I go, which was a bit unexpected but hardly an inconvenience. As for the planner, I did unpack it already and put it in the cover, as I just couldn't help myself and wanted to check it out a bit, marvel at it, admire it. I haven't done anything further with it yet, that'll probably happen closer to the time when it gets put to use. But so far I just love holding it, I love the little ribbon page markers on the cover, ... I can hardly wait to begin using it.

[@ClumsyCharlott]

I tried the Hobonichi cousin for the first time this year and I honestly love it. Might just get it again for next year

[@mitszub]

Thank you for the video!

[@bearinmind247]

My journal is 1.92 euros and comes from a supermarket, it has dot grids and it's suiting me really well and it seems to last a lot longer than the other journals I had did.

[@tanjagardner285]

I got the Denali A5 (and A6) too - it was just such a pretty cover! I wanted to make it a trifecta and get the Cousin + Denali cover, but they were showing as sold out when I finally got through to the website, so I ended up grabbing a Navy Hon instead. I'm currently *thinking* very hard about doing a second order and getting a Weeks Mega as a self-care planner also.

[@mellodi]

I got Moleskine pocket daily and Kinbor A6 and Kinbor Weeks for 2025. I contemplate using a bit of Kinbor and a bit of Moleskine for my dailies as I love them both. Maybe switch each month then I could use the spare months for notes! My biggest challenge is to persuade myself from buying Cousin. I do not need A5 planner because I work better in smaller ones. I don't like the quotes. And I can't afford it. But it is so tempting to have all in one book. And I journal in blank grid notebook. But I agree Hobonichi is just such a good quality and high class of products it's very tempting. I got the A6 Tragen Flat Pouch because I don't have anything to carry A6 books in. I love it!

[@OktoberJournal]

I loveeeee the leaflet so much, it makes me giggle :P Lovely lineup Elle!

[@lamyy678]

I had bought the Common Planner by Sterling Ink. I looove the look of Hobonichi but I feel like there is too much space for me at the moment, that’s why I like the common planner as it doesn’t have the dailies but it has blank pages you can turn into dailies. If I keep up with it constantly in 2025, I will try my first ever Hobonichi for 2026 😂😂

[@Pym1975]

I have heard everybody say that it is scary or creepy and it’s not in the least. If you read it you find out that he’s a superhero not somebody creepy. It’s just most people who speak English. Don’t understand Japanese aesthetics.

[@charina_custodio]

i am also a childless cat lady that also have those notebooks 🐈

[@azrahshabudien7769]

I really want to get a tragen pouch for my 5 year a6 but I don’t know if it would fit.

[@kimanna_]

Love the choices you’ve made! :) 🫶 Edit; it was a status symbol for me too to have a multiple colored pen. I truly loved mine when I was young hihi!